Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the kind comments of both colleagues who commended me for my speech, but I would like to note for the record that almost my entire speech consisted of a letter from a young mother in my riding. It is she who should get the credit, not myself.
The member is quite right. In the column that I wrote in the local papers in my riding I alluded to the fact that this government can find millions of dollars to cover up its ineptitude.
It can find, for example, $500 million for the cancellation of the EH-101 helicopters; $60 million in an outright lawsuit decision for the Pearson airport cancellation; $2 million because it decided to go on a witch hunt against a former prime minister and it had to pay his legal bills.
There is example after example that the opposition and the general public can find where the government seems to be able to find hundreds of millions of dollars, but it cannot compensate all the victims. It is worried about a precedent? Do what is right.